The New York Herald Newspaper, December 9, 1863, Page 4

4 ‘NEW YORK HERALD. JAMES GURDON BENNETT, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR OFFIOR N. W. CORNER OF FULTON AND Na3sav STS. Volume XXVIII MOUSENENTS THIS KV ACADEMY OF MUSIC, Irving Plact —Tux Geman Orens—Don Juan. NIBLO'S GARDEN. Siro Teen AssuRaNcR AND Yass! WALLACK 8 THEATK WINTER GARDEN May. Ages ov Kichdgnny— Bry seoad Yay Roses, Prowsway.—Tiewet of Leave Kroadway.—As You Bow, So OLYMPIC THEAT You Musr Rxar—l'cou Pruticovoy WEW POWERY THKATRA, Bowery—Doxs Bor Frion's Biasp POWERY THEA or Autvsenc- Waxve rite BARNUN'S NU clown , | Giaxt Ore. Grant Boy, Litin ur | Dotira, Cuicistatas EvE—E Lompin—alte: hoo | | BRY INSTRELS, attcuanter Mat. 3 fread way. NW BUNGE, DaScks. be kunsguna ke —Jeinis | rue Pore | Woops WinsTREL UALL, Boras, Vaecas So Ca Kih: GEO. CURISTYS MINSTREL BESQUUS, RONG, Dares, be.- Ds AMERICAN THEA fantom s, BeRLE BROADWAY & Broadway, —Erurorr AN adware Bastirs, opens Vor AMPHITHE BASTIO AND EQurstkian Broning HOPE CHAPEL 718 Broadway.—Taw Sreamoacor rie om Minnon ov tix Uswease. BEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 648 Cumositins anv Lacrurss ny a. MUU HOOLEW'S OPERA Hu Dances, Bortasques, & Broatwane oe. Bovokly a. —Lrivovraw New York, Weduesday, December 9, 3553. pea 2 ADVERTISEMENTS FOR THE COUNTRY, Advertisements for the Warxuy Hiraiy must be band Adin before ten o'clock every Weduesday eveuing It Pirculation among the enterpris.ng mechanics merchants, u $ and gentlemen througbous the Country is increasing very rapidly Advertisements iw sorted in the WxeKiy Herat. will thus be seen by u Linco Portion oF tho active and energetic people of tue Uuited States. THE SITUATION. No hostile demonstrations, either on the part of Gen. Meade's army or tie day. Our mea were working assiduously in pre- ‘neimy, took place yester- out alteration, The money market was comparatively easy, bat the ruling rate of intorest remuins at seven por cont, at whieh borrowers ure liberally su the tall in gold had the effet yesterday to unsette the market for miny kinds of merchandise; but tu | none was there n chan .e in price equiv: to the decline in gold dmported morchandise wis quiet, sales being restrivted by the Gificence in (he views of buyers and sellera At the Produce chan things were mixed, NEW YUOKK HERALD, WEDNESDAY, DEUEMBEK 9, 1863. dy considered the Times and Tribune partisan papers. The Hexany, he said, is well known not to be partisan, and he was in fuvor of having di - mocratic papers as well as republican. Referred to the committee having the subject in charge. No further business of interest came up. Between ten and eleven o'clock last night a fire broke out in the trunk store of I, Lagowits, 356 Broadway. The fire burnt through the whole building and carried away the roof. The four upper stories were occupied by William Banks & Co., wholesale clothing warehouse. The estimated loss amounts to about $120,000, the greater part of which is covored by insurance. ’ Tn the case of a seizure of a quantity of woollen cloths, tried yesterday by Mf. Wilcoxson, for V. Durand & Riflird, consigaces, before Judge Ship- man, the jury found in gvor of the consignee Surrogate Tucker yesierday continued the trial of the“contested will of Abraham R. Lawrence. Two of the three witnesses to the will are found to be dead, and the sole liv'ng witness testified that he has no recollection of its execut Proof of the handwriting of U.e deceased witae: was | offered, and the matter was sdjowrned over till | March 28, Surrogate ordered the money lying in the city treasury bel g to the estate of John Morrell, doceas to be paid to his next of kin, who have reeently been discowered. There was no attractive feature in the stock murket yerterd y, and very little alteration in prices, God fluctuate! throughout the diy aid prices varied between L181; and 159, Governmont stocks concmned fiam, with Floor and wheat were rather lower, Corn was higher Cale were easier, owing to heavy receipts. Pork was | fiemer, Lard wasa shade lower, Potroleum was about steady, Groceries were Cull and declining. Freight were rather quiet, but tirm. | ‘he market ‘or beol cattle ruled firmer this week, and the averace price was besrly or quite hall a cent a pound higher, ranging from Te. a 10! with afew fancy cattie at 12c, The supply was moderate, and with a good demand, the cattle avid out early on Tuesday morn- ing. Milch cows and veals were steady. Sheep and ubs were in large supply, but with a good demand; @ were firmer, at $3 50 a $6 50437. Swine were firm for prime, but rather easier (or common; corn fed brousht 5 3 and sti ‘The total | receipts were 4,792 beeves, sheep and lambs, and 50,976 awit vr Longstreet’s Retreat—The Importance of Our Success in ¥. st Tennessee, paring their camps for winter quarters, The enemy are in all probalsi Atallev paign in Virginia is at an end, until the genial days doing just the same thing. nts it seems certain that the cam- of another spring shall come again. The news from Chattanooga reports ¢ Hardee as falliag back trom Dilton with the d _moralized army of Generai Bragg, ceeds in the command. al le. whom he sx- | The mountains in -Tenneasce are suid to be filled with deserters from the rebel army. A large butch of prisoners from Chattanoo; Rumbering two thousand one hundred and thirty, passed through Indianapolis, on Monday, en route for Rock Island. T hundred more were ex- peoted there yesterday. A number of rebel officers to the amount of one hundred and thirty, mostly captured from Major General Breckin- tidge's division, @so passed through Indianapolis en their way to Johnson's Island. Despatches from Louisville, Ky., yesterday co:- | firm all that we have already given from other Rast | ve sources relutive to the arrival of General Sherman @t Knoxville, and his pursuit of the rebel General Longstreet. Our special correspondent at Knoxville de- qeribes the further details of the siege up to the time when Geueral Longstreet abandoned his at- | tack, and commeuced bia rapid retreat towards | Virginia. There ia nothing later to report from Charles- ton. CONGRESS. An official aanouncement was made in both houses yesterday that the President's Message will be sent in at half-past twelve o'clock to-day. In the Senate, Mr. Wilson, the Military Committee of last session, gave notice of a bilito increase the bounty for volunteering. Mr. Wilson uleo introduced a resolution to facili- tate the payment of back pay and pensions of de- ceased soldier, Lc. Mr. Davis submitted a reso- lation, which was laid over, declaring that the re- fusal of the rebel authori to exchange negro soldiers and tieir white officers should not prevent the exchange of our other soldiers and officers In rebel prisonson just terms, such as will prevent suffering to our brave cfficers and soldiers in the bonds of the encmy. The resolution directing the Judiciary Committee to inquire and report whether Mr. Robert Wilson is still a member from Mis- souri was taken up and discussed at some length. Mr. Trumbull moved to amend the resolution by decloring that Mr. Wilson was not entitled toa seat in the Senate, The amendment was agreed to and the resolution adopted. The organization of the House was perfected by the election of Mr. Edward McPhersoa, of chairman of Pennsylvania, as Clerk; Mr. G. N. Ordway, of New Hampshire, as Sergeant-at-Arms; Ira Good- enow, a8 Doorkecpor, aud W. 8. King, of Minne- sota, as Postmaster. A joint reaciution, present- ing the thanks of Congress to General Grant and army, and directing the President to cunse a medal to be strack for General Grant in the name | of the people of the United States, was unani- mously adopted. Mr. Co& cSered a resolution, which was laid over, requettiag the President to take immediate steps for the exchange of prison- ers of wor, and tlat be communicate to the House all correspondence in the War Departmeut Folating tothe subjevt of the exchange of prison ers. Notice was given of bills prohibiting slavery fn the territory included in the P resident's eman- oipation proclamation, and for repealing the 4hree hundred dollar commutation clause in the Enrolment act. The credentials of Messrs. Segar, Kitchen and Chandler, from Virginia, which had boon referred to the Committee on Electious, wero presented by the chairman. The remainder of the seaston was occupied in the selection of eeate. MISCELLANEOUS NEWB The Board of Aldermen met yesterday at one o'clook, and transacted considerable routine busi- ness. By a communication from the Finance De- partment, it appears that there is a balance in to hands of the Treasurerto the amount of $3,152,648 G9. A petition was received from the trustees of the Colored Orphan Asylum, praying that the association may be rolieved from the conditions on which it holds the lota of ground Where the institation was erected, in order that they may remove to another locality. The Board | adjourned, to meet again this day (Wednesday) at One o'clock. In the Bord of Supervisom yesterday, a com- Eastern Tennessee, ¢o desperately struggled | for, is now, and we may well hope definitely, safe. General Longstreet, if he is still within the limits of that State, is xioua only about the safest way to get out of it. Burnside’s noble struggle, which the whole country has watcbed with such intense interest, terminated successfully upon the arrival of Geveral Sherman with reinforcements on the 4th instant, and the retreat of Longstreet on the same night. Longstreet’s line of retreat is up the valley of the Holston, which he may follow into Virginia. His infantry and transportation follow the valley on the south side of the river, which thus covers his left. His left is also covered by his cavalry on the north side of the river and by the Clinch Mountains, the gaps in which his cavalry will hold or obstruct. Rese. Pamc Auroap—Tue Rats Deserr- ING Tux Sum.--A letter from one of our London correspondents recently. publisved, gives some important information regard- ing the present aspect of rebel affairs abroad. The rebel agents, it appears, abandon- ing atl hope of inducing the British government to allow the rams to depart, have sotd them to the Admira'ty. Convinced tht their cause is hopeless, they have wisely determined ts pro- vide for the nselvos whilst there is yet time, as they can never ag in retura to this country. The anountwhich they have received is not stated ; butit must be & good round sum, suffi ent te keep them in clover for the rest of their lives It is a question whether any share will be re- served for the arch traitor whom they acknow- ledve #4 master, When he reaches England, if he ever does get there, it will probably be to fiad his minions turn their backs upon him, and leave him to drag outin poverty the remainder of a despised existence. But what will the English holders of rebel bonis, who have furnished the money to but Id these vesse's, say to alt this? They went into the speculation fron interested motives, and not from any real sympathy with the canse. Taey eved the assurances of the rebel agents and of their own bribed journals that the re- be'lion waa going to succeed, and they staked freely upon it. Now they seo their money going into the pockets of @ set of un- principled adventurers, and the confede- racy itself going to the dogs. By the time the news of Grant's successes ia Ten- nesave reaches them the rebel bonds will be worth just 80 much waste papor, with no pros- pect of their ever recovering a cent of the money which has been received from the British government, We can imagine the revulsion of feeling which this collapse of the rebel bubble will oc- cas onat tue other side. Nothing is so galling toan Englishman as to be tricked out of his money. His belief in his own superior intelli- gence is so great that he does not admit the poss'bility of his being duped. When he finds that the rebel agents have been too smart for him, and that he has lost his self-esteem as well as his cash, his anger will know no bounds. His eyes will then be opened to the shallow contrivances by which he has been bamboozled, and he will abuse the Southerners worse than he ever did the Yankees, If the rebel agents are wise they will make early tracks from British soil. It will soon prove uncomfortably hot for them. Braae Dox. For.—General Grant has given the finishing blow to Bragg, who has been superseded by Hardee. Bragg has been an unlucky braggart from the beginning of the war. When he planted his batteries at Pensa- cola for the reduction of Fort Pickens, he de- clared that, regardless of expense, men or gun- powder, Pickens should ,be reduced to the rebel flag. But, instead of taking Pickens, he was compelled to clear out of Pensacola, and abandon the town and its defences to ‘‘the Yankees.” Bragg, with a considerable army, next invaded Kentucky, and from the centre of that State issued a flaming proclamation to the people of the Northwestern States to join his General .Foster was at Tazewell, on Long- atreet’s flank, on the 6th, and his cavalry on that day had a fight with the enemy’s cavalry in one of the passes. His despatch indicates his intention to use his cavalry to the utmost, and if be does so he will doubtless inflict severe punishment on the enemy. Sherman’s cavalty is reported to be on the south side of the Holston; and, though the country is broken and bad for cavalry, it is not improbable that this energetic officer may be able to hold the ene- my’s infantry until his own can come up, when we may reasonably anticipate the destruction or capture of Longstreet’s entire force, On Monday the President announced the retreat of Longstreet by proclamation, and called upon the people “to render special homage and gratitude to Almighty God for this great advancement of the national cause.” From these words we may gather the import- ance that the President attaches to this suc- cess, and we think that he does not overrate it. By Longstreet’s failure we see the rebellion compelled to relinquish its final hold upon the last grand outpost by. which it might have re- tained control over the interior and held the upper country that forms so grand a part of the Southern States. Now it is restricted to the belt that follows the line of the Atlantic from Richmond to Mobile, shut up between the mountains and the sea, flauked on the one hand by the Alleghany and Cumberland Mountains, that bristle with Northern bayonets, and on the other by the ocean, that teems with Northern gunboats. Its present territory is represented by the three points of Richmond, Charleston and Mobile. Such a country is inevitably weak at every point, and, while it hardly possesses a sufficient depth for natural cohesion, it will doubtless soon be demonstrated that it pos- sesses but little power of resistance. Recrvuimine 1x New York.—We cannot con- ceive why any difliculty should be experienced in this city in filling up the ranks of our armies. To us it appears that there is nothing so easy. There are plenty of men and means; but the mode of management adopted, or rather allow- ed to be practised, tends to prevent rather than encourage enlistment. The men who should swell our forces from this city are continually being driven away into Jersey and Brooklyn by the manner in which the reeruiting officers are treated by the Board of Supervisors. It is stated that there are substitute brokers who control the matter; but it was supposed that their improper influence would cease to exist immediately after the late charter election. Yet we still have daily delegations of recruit- ing officers calling upon us and complaining that they cannot obtain the money for the men whom they enlist. This is all wrong; and Mr. Orison Blunt, who is chairman of the Board of Supervisors, and who has o high reputation for honesty and patriotism, should look into the matter and sce it righted. Paysipent Lixcotn’s FortacOmmxa Pian oF Restoration.—We are promised the President's Message to-day, and we are told that its dis- tinguishing feature will be his plan for the reclamation of the rebellious States. It is also reported that he will start from the compre- hensive idea that, under his emancipation pro- clamation, slavery is abolished iu the desig- nated States. If this be so, then our Presi- dent’s annual Message of 1863 will be the most important document of the kind in the history victorious banner and the Southern con- federacy; but his onward march at Perryville was turned into a disgraceful flight over the mountains of Kentucky into Tennessee. Next he undertook an advance upon Nashville, but was met balf way by Rosecrans, and sent off again, soundly thrashed for his presumption, Next he was turned out of his fortifications at Tulmhoma and Shelbyville, driven over the Tennessee river, turned out of Chattanooga, and pursued into the plains of Georgia. There, Generals Longstreet and D. H. Hall, with their veteran legions from Virginia, and twenty thou- sand Georgia militia, coming to his rescue, Bragg wheeled about to destroy the Union army; but he only sueceeded in pushing it back into a position from which it has recoiled with the most disastrous consequences to Bragg him- self. And this fs the end of Bragg. He may now be put in the same catalogue with such specimens of Southern military invincibility as General Floyd, General Wise, General Pillow, Humphrey Marshall.and Jo. Johnston. EE Oxe or THY Manvers oF THE AGE—Waat Has Become or Ir—Some three years since all Europe was agog. A leviathan steamship had been built which was to transport tena of thousands of human beings across the ocean in “an unprecedentedly short space of time. Old Neptune was vanquished, and John Bull was the individual who did the deed. Crowds flocked to the Thames river to see the huge steamer; new piers were built for her; incense was offered up to the huge monster. In this country she created the same enthu- siasm, caused the same wonder. A few years have passed by, and the general inquiry now is, “What bas become of the Great Eastern?” A glance at our advertising columns will solve the mystery. There, under the head'of “Auction Sales,” may be ascertained the fact that on the 14th day of January next the renowned paddle and ‘screw steamship Great Eastern, 22,791 tons, 679 feet in length, 82 fect in breadth, and having four paddle engines of 1,000 horse and four serew engines of 1,600 horse power, will be sold at auction, by order of the mortgagees, at the salesrooms of Messrs. Cunard, Wilson & 0o., Liverpool. What a comment upongthe un- certainty of human events. Big ships Jike great men, come to grief, it seems, and get knocked down. The lesson is replete with instruction. Tus Orrice or Lrevrenant Geverat.—It is already proposed in Congress—that is, in the House of Representatives—to revive the office and rank of lieutenant general of the United States Army; and in the same resolution it is proposed to give a medal to General Grant for the victories he has won. Now, the office of lieutenant general is actually in existence, in the person of General Scott, and therefore there is né need of its revival. But it is stated that the rank is to be “revived,” so that it may be conferred upon General Grant, in the hope, no doubt, that sucha high military position will switch him off the Presidential track. We admit that General Grant’ deserves a medal for his brilliant services, In fact, he merits a medal for every one of the four bundred and seventy- two cannon that hé has captured in this war, os well as for every one of the ninety thousand prisoners’ captured by the troops under his command. Te also deserves the rank of lieu- tenant general. But if the politicians think they are going to beat General Grant, General nication from the Mayor, enclosing a certificate | of the country; for it will involve in the res- | McClellan, or any other general, out of the ‘om the Comptrolior and biinaeif that, the Henan, Bun, Tires and Tribune being the papers of the es! circulation in the county, they are the ; Feelsine wediom of the county. Bupervisor jus toration of the Union a reconstruction of the government, the final shaping of which no human imagination ean conjecture. We await the President's Message. | Presidency by any humbug of this sort, if it be the will of the people to call either of them to that high station, they will find themselves wofully mistaken. Rever, Srrius.—It appears from tho Rich- mond Kaguirer that the supplies of subsistence (Indian corn) for the rebel armies, including the army of Lee, are now chiefly drawn from Georgia and Alabama—two States which, down to the outbreak of the rebellion, mainly de- pended for their provisions upon Tennessee, Kentucky and the Northwest, and upon Texas, But during the last season the fertile fields of Georgia and Alabama, heretofore entirely de- voted to cotton, have been almost exclusively devoted to Indim corn, and the result is a corn crop in these two States believed to be sufficient to supply the rebel armies east of the M ssissippi till the next summer, At al! eventa, upon Alabama, Georgia and North Carolina the rebelion now depends for its subsistence through the winter. Virginia, in some portions, has been reduced to a desert, in other portions has been exhausted; Tennessee, Kentucky, the great Northwest and all the States west of the Mississippi are utterly cut off (rom Jeff. Davis, and even Mississippi, extensively planted in corn last spring, has, by the contending armies withia ber borders since May last, been almost impoverished. The cutting of the remaining railroad lines, therefore, between Virginia and Georgia, in compelling Jeff. Davis to evacuate Richmond, will leave his mockery of a govern- ment without a local habitation or a name. Is it necessary to wait till spring to achieve this work? This is the question which, from policy and bumanity, we would urge'upon the atten- tion of the administration. Gusenats Burxstpe AND Hooxer.—In holding Knoxville against the superior army of Long- street, until relieved by reinforcements from below, General Burnside has done that good service to the national cause which may be classed ‘with the most important victories of the war. He has fully redeemed his failure at Fredericksburg, a8 Hooker, in his brilliant battle “above the clouds,’ has redeemed his failure at Chancellorsville. Ifin their failures they lost thousands of men to no purpose, in “their successes they have saved thousands of men who otherwise would bave been sacrificed. “Honor to whom honor is due.’’ Important me Ragarp To ALiN Prisoners—Someraina FOR BLockaps RUNNERS TO PoxDER ON —An important matter relative to the disposition of aliens captured vio lating the blockade is now agitating the War and Navy copartments at Washington, Until recently alions have violated the blockade with impunity, always claiming thoir discharge after capture upon taking oath that they were sudjects of foreign Powers. Upon being discharged many of these parties have made their way directly back to Havana or Nassau, and reshipped in other blockade runners. Thus some of them have violated the blockade ftom two to eight times, as is the case with a large por- tion of the crew of the prize steamer Banshoo. The government has found it necessary to distinguish, in the face of these facts, between neutral aliens and aggrossive aliens, and {t is probable that all prisoners hereafter cap- tured violating the blockade, who may be kuown to have previously committed the same offence, will be sent to Fort Lafayette, Fort Warren and other strongholds, no matter what the evidences may be regarding their na- tivity. In that case it will be found exceedingly dificult to procure men enough to man the numerous steamers Dow engaged in the illicit trade. The Banshee’s crew are now awaiting the final cettlement of this grave question at Washington, before United States Marshal Murray can dispose of them. Arrival of the Hudson from Port Royal. ‘Ihe United States steam transport Hudson, Captain Alexander, from Port Royal, South Carolina, on the 34 Aust., arrived at this porton Mondsy. She experienced strong northerly gales off Hatteras. The steamer Fulton arrived out on Wednesday ovening, the 24 inst. Mr. Sawyer, the Henan correspondent at Port Royal, sends the following: — Salutes of thirty-three November 30, from all the Islands, by order of Geveral Gillmore, in honor ot Gi Grant’s vi poms Tne Charleston papers give the news without a word of comment. The mortar fire on Sumter continues. Deserters report heavy losses from our shells. Another Batch ing were firea on Mon tteries on Morrie and Poly, jeneral Prisoners for Fort La- fayotte. It isa singular fact thet prisoners captured violating the b'ockade are not disposed of in accordance with the specife fostructions from the War or Navy Department fa all cases, but often according to the whims of lccal oMeers, The prisoners brought to the port of New York who are American citizens are at once trans‘erred to Fort Lafayette, under a general order from the Secrotary of the Navy, or are held to await special instructions from that department, They are then disposed of im accord- ance with such Instructions, In the port of Boston matters seem to be managed differently. A case in hand is that of the Ella and Appa, a prize steamer captured of Wilmington, N.C., by the gunboat Niphon. Four of the Prisoners captured on the Ella aod Avuna were brought nd were directed to be veut boat dowo—an act which involved her in having attempted go violate of arms, ‘The captain of the Ella and Anna, who gave the order for his steamer to run down the gunboat carried to Boston, and there paroled, and is now living in that city at ono of its hotels. Naturally enough bis men complain bitterly at this partlil manif: mt what is called justice. the men sent down to the fort yesterday, c them were captured on board the Robert F. Lee:—Faward Hersel, Sarouel Grissam, H. H. Ingraham, Alexander Lawrence, FE. G. Whitney, ©, P. Jervey, W. jd. Whito, W. Sassard. J. W. Britt. James O'Neill, a prisoner recently rent North from the also gent down. O'Neil is to blow nga gunboat y throwing akeg of powder into the el. The prisoner is a quiet, inoftensve looking man, and does not appear as though he would do an act of so great desperation as the one with whieh he is charged. The following ace the The July Riotse=—The Homicide of the Negro Williams. COURT OF OYER AND TERMINER. Before Hon. Judge Sutherland, Der, 8.—he People ve. Wiliam Butney, Pdwar’ Con field ang James Lamb.—The prisoners are indicted for the murdor of William Williams, a colored man, which o: curred during the draft riots. The person on trial now is Butney. The Court was occupied fur a long time in eo lecting a qualified jury. Tho following interesting examination of one juror-took place—Isaac Harmon. This juror, on being called, challenged himself. and stated that his feelings against capital punishinent were such that he could not coicide in a v against the prisoner. "Question (By the Court.) What do your scroples artve from? Apswer. Conscientious rerupies Q. What denomination of religion do you belong tot A. i belong to the Jewish denomination. 5 ). Are your preudices founded on your religion, or how? A. I cannot sit on a jury and convict a pot care be should be convicted, it would be agemst my own feelings to do 80. 4 Aguleat nding soy bony gulny ne inuiir Row cl Against finding ap; ly guilty, no matter how clear the proot? A. it would be impossible for to agree with a jury in any case of pumehment where the penalty was death. I could not go against my own conscience. This juror was potest y After several other exeminations of jurors as to their jualidcations, twelve gontiemen were sworn, and the Netrict Attorney proceeded to open the case for the pro focation, “From the testimony of Captain Joba F. Dixon, It ap- poarea that he fomse the esetend Williaina, lytug neighbor! ‘Lero; ot the 14th of last July, and that there was a lar, —— @ quantity of blood near bi medical testimony taken before the Coroner's jury was read by consent, and showed the injuries by which the deceased died from a guashot wound P nd otuer caures ‘Mr. Maber deposed that on bis way to his #table ort tue day in question, he saw a nogro on the sifewalk, aud a man take @ stone from the coal yard fouce aad strike the pegro with it on the chest; does not know tue man, does not see him in court. Mr Hant—Is that the man (pointing to the prisoner) Witness—No, sir. Mir. Hall—Pid you not point this inan out on a former trial—the trial of MoCalleter—f or the same ofence? Ob Jected to, and, after some discussion, tbe question was | Tepeated, and the witness identified the prisoner a& tho man who struck the nogro with the stone: aw bin bit the colored man about the breast with astone, the mon | took his coat off and threw iton the (ence, and witness called him a rascal; ho then camo forward, and witvess armed bimeell w pitehfork, and the man went beck aw hin strike the negro three times with the atone. This witness wns cross examined at gront lengh ond with much searching inquiry, a8 to his p wor of iden- tify ing the accused. Fhe rial was adjourned to this day (Wo'nestay). Counsel (or sho prosecution, A. Oakey Hall; for the de- fence, ex Judge Stowart. The ts aman of about forty seven years of age, ‘and an ifwhman by birth. He is a mild looking man, Peapeasing a0 visible indications of a murderer. dict of guilty | | ofeceiving pay for their services in tbe recent riots, The Re d'Italia. PUBLIC EXHIBITION OF THS @RBAT 1RON-OLAD—THE Al gHIP OF THE ITAWIAN NAVY—WHAT 18 THOUGHT OF HER—PREPABATIONS FOR HBR DE- PARTURR, BTC. ‘To day and Thursday of this week bas Leen get apart by Mr. Webb for the reception on board of the royal Italian iron-clad frigate Ke d'Italia, of such of the public agare interested in not ovly a beautiful ship, but the not sea going irou-clad frigate ever built in this coun- try. The ship lies at the now Bremen docks at Hoboken, aud will be open for visitors from nine A. M. until sunset. After Thursday n0 visitors will be allowed on board, The Re @’itatia, built by W H. Webb for tho royal Tialian mavy, will shortly loave our waters for her pow bome beneath the sunny skies of the East. Born of Amoriogn parcntage, sho goes,out to the worlda monument of the ingenuity and creative genius of Amo. rica, and we may be proud of her as @ model ship, and as the first regular sea-going tron-clud frigate built in this country. Hor beauty of (orm, hor symmetry of outdine aud the grace of her every foature not only olicits the highest commendation of our own people and that of all foreign oflicials who have seen her, but the Ltaltan offi- cors who have been sont out bere to take her to Italy are dolighted with hor, and i every quarter talk of her in language indicative of their high appreciation of our talents and of their own gratification ta beibg possessors of such a fine specimen of uavai architecture. The ship bas some remarkable features, which were displayed in a recent trial trfp—her epecd excoeding by far what was,oxpectod— showing that our private ship- builders in this country, when untrammelled by old fogy- igta, stupidity and conceit of cortain officials in the Navy Department, can build the fastost vessels afloat. Her steorago was the theme of universal and unlimited praise, the men at the helm controlling it with perfect ease, while the largo ship obeyed it with a rapidity and certainty quite in contrast with some vessels we could name. The amount of room which bas been devoted to the use of her battery is free from obstructions, and will enable the orew to have ample accommodation tor the free use of their guns in action. Tho ports are uuusually high above water, 60 that in a seiwsy she will be dry on deck and not flood her battery with waves. Her draught of water is remarkably light, the ship drawing only twenty- three feet six inches, with all her equipments on board. Thia of itself is a great desidoratum, aud is in marked contrast with vessels of ber tonuage in the navies of France and Eagland as well as our own, © Mr. Webb has shown his energy aud skill in this ship, and in the midst ofa terrible civit war, wheu labor and ma- torial were not readily procured, whem 4 thousand draw- backs have been encountered, ho has completed within the specified time one of “the most beautiful ships of war afloat. We can learn from this a lesson, aud the Navy Department should heed it, ‘The well known ability of the constructor to carry out the desires of the Italian Minister of Marine, as well as his pecuniary responsibility, was undoubtedly the prime cause of his obtatuing thege contracts; and amid all our financial troubles he has never given the Italian authori- ties any opportunity to distrust him. In the midst of our July riots the [talians were alarmed lest their ships should bo destroyed; but the manner in which Mr. Webb guarded thom against attack obtained for bim a new con- fidence in tho eyes of the Italians. Tn point of workmanship the Re d'Italia stands out pro- omiveat. Nota thing has been neglected to make her Staunch, strong, beautiful and seaworthy. Her armor plating has been secured in the most firm manner, while the hull which bears it is a wonder of strength. There is one thing which we must all regret, if rumor ba truthful; and that is, that orders bave beon received for the Re Galantuomo, an old tasnioned sailing ship-of the Hine, with a small auxiliary to keep in close com- pany with the iron.clad, It have been ordered otherwise. The Re d’ftalia should have been ullowed to make the run across the Atlantic as qnickly as sho could, and wo feel confident that she would have surprised the world; but, as orders stand, she is condemned to poke along at less than half speed, so that the old ship-of-the-line, which, to do her utmost, cannot make much speed,can be kept in sight. This order, no doubt, is the result of the recent failure of the French and Englisn iron-clads to keep at sea in bad weatber, and the Italians do not wish to lose their officers and men in the event of the barest possi- bility of the ship foundering. But no one need fear that. A plan of her midship section gives her the most beauti- fal and easy posture in the water, and she will no doubt prove a moat famous sea boat. It has been stated that Mr. Webb is about to build other trou'clad vessels for the italian navy, in addition to the two he now has on hand. We enjoy the facilities for correcting the statement and-saying that he bas no such intention, bor have the Italians at preseat any desire to increase their iron clad navy by baving them constructed outside their own navy yards. They have the men, moans and yards in which to build them, and they have already built some of the finest vessels in their navy. ‘The representative of their navy now in this port must as we not by any means be considered a sample, however. She Oe ee Ee ‘was built by the Neapolitans several years ago, and be- en, om ~ fore the advent of the present style of war veste's. Soe ea ees theme 1a OM Pak, TT EEN ee on There is no doubt but the United States government r would pass; 1 told them all to pass to the stateroo would only be too glad to obtain tho Ke d'Italia and | hall; I went fy ener too; 1 FE eenen Re de kaigi de Portogallo; but the Ttaitans, on the other | thecxckomentas much az, posible watil 1 returned; hand, would be but too sorry to p h them, started forward through the stateroom, and returay again, and told eee leer ae ee Have W treet Commissioner? matter; | passed up to the house, TO THE EDITOR OF THE HBRALD. requested Mr. Wm. Ensign. the first pilot, to get the rises Obeceiointalblhiel Graces an near shore as possible; he was heading for the sho av Your, Dee 8.1m") | Peet mbar LO Snr tore, aeons an article in this morning's Hyrarp entitled | ment take pte of the ost, ‘and I w cere Street Commissioner?”’ and which tends to | tend to the safety of the passengers; I passed b iseredit upon him for not removing obstructions | (Brough the ball, where there was gome steam or smi in Fifth aveuue, at the Park entrance. 1 would beg leave to say that the incumbrance is caused by the building of a cewer in Fifty-ninth street, under a contract made witb the Croton Aqueduct Depart ment, and the laying of mains in Fifth ayeoue, under the supervision of the samo department; and the Street | [orward ta.the ougine on the starwosed side) I got sho Commissioner bas no authority to remove obstructions | foe 4 b the’ steam and smoke; 1 heard the voice caused by @ contract or made by avy city exccutive de- | tre ; Teen dune utaty ee bevener Get trem partment. It appears to be the general impreasion that pte roy Hoorn’ tn" the coutre Of 06 Soak. t ablled to bi Street Commitstoner has supervisory control over ihe and requested him to start the donkey it he had 4 treet wud avenues in this city; when, iu fact,atter they | Peay done ao; I had then discovered. Raman Gs are paved, the Croton Aquedect Department has tail about amidsbips, pear the room saw ti chargo of the paving, sewertny and al! other matters per- | fre it was fiteen or twenty ry ; the & taining thereto, except the cleaning of streets, which, a8 | was blazing; the engi Mr. Fowkes, angwered be bh yon ate aware, comes under the charge of the City'In- | Jone eo T paoned aed mia lis mam Gna whict = cotor, Very respectfully, sepineg “ ie CHARLES G. CORNELL, Street Commissioner. [pie Midd pions ane Sam eeanel, City Military. THE KIGHTH KEGIMENT. On Friday evening pext this regiment ts ordered to Assemble at the Centre Market Armory for the purpose THE SEVENTY-NINTH REGIMENT. The following addepes, issued by friends of the above regiment, wil! explain itself— The New York Seventy-vinth regiment (Highlanders) has gained for iteeit au honorable reputation for courage, geod conduct and Giscipimwe wherever it has served, and the eitizens of New York may well feel proud of tts achievements, It was mustered into rervice at the be ginning of (be war, sud wae engaged in the first eventtui etroggle at Mapasses, soit afterwards served with cred. 14 \) Bouth Carolina. From this department it was again transferred to the} Army of the Potomac, and at Chantilly it® brave colonel (General stevens) fell, vith its colors jn bis hand, in the front of the end not far di from the place where its former colonel (Jame wun) also fell, Tt was afterwards engaged at ntaiD At Antictam, where it received the thanks of its commander on the fei f it# coolness and stubborn courage, Alter the struggle at Frederickeburg, \t was transferred to the De partment of the West, and wes with General Grant at the capture of Vicksburg, and after this it pursued eral Jobnaten to Jackson; and it is now serving in Kast Ten. weseor. Its Colonel—David Morrison, of York—is Bow acting 27 brigqde commander, and in all the atrug- gies in which it has participated it has gained the praise of its commanders, and in some cases haa won the ad- miration of ite foes. Its friends, who desire to contribute in furn suing bonnets, aro respectfully requested to do £0 by handing their subscriptions to any of the members of the Fxecutive Committee. Marion The Treasurer ts Mr. F. H. Bartholomew, No. 84 4 use of street. A meeting to matters retat! Above was held on the 18th of lest month, at the Mr. Bartholomew, when routine matters wete attended to £8 before stated. AXTRMET TO Page 4 FORGED Curce.—A dar ng attempt to raise the wind by means of a forged check occurred yes- terday afternoou at the Shoe and Lesthey Paak. Abd named irank Bischoff, it appoert, was employed to pre sents forged check for $270, purporting w have been drawe by J. ©, Meeker, and made payabie t6 C.8. Marston or bearer. The paying teller at (he benk wwomediatey detected the fraud, aod apon questionipe the boy eseclained that the principal ia the forgery was w oteide for the es ir. Stowt, the cashier bank, wre consulted with In Folation to the mat it was erranged that the boy should be pernulty the movey, and that an oftoer should follow b with a view of catching the { Captain too Twenty sixth precinct ad «nd a rest the man who w waiting, aud os soon A the principal made his apposrance, whieh he dra pear the corner of roadway and Maden jane,he was promptly t kon into custody. gcured gave Hie name os Joho Brady, Jr.,aud upon Being tiken to the Torabs he was committed for examination There ie an sccomplice in the case who will probably be arrested to-day. Explosion of a Steam Tank. Tho staam tank of W. kK. Richy vstigheer house 6x THE STEAMBOAT DISASTER ON THE HUDSON. Inquest om the Bodies at Yonkers—Testi-| mony of the Captain, Pilot and Cierk of No more of the injured parties by the late oxptosion of the steamboat Isaso Newton have died since our last re-) Port, and it is now believed that they will all recover. Mr. William Ryan, One of the wounded passengers, boon brought to the New York Hospital in this city; another has boen sent to his home in Alban: ‘The re- maining four are still in Youkers,two at the steam! house on the wharf, one at the Franklin House, and ond] atthe Denslow House, where their wants are woll at-| tended to, Theo inquest wes resumed by Coroner Lawrence and Mr. Witham Romer at half-past nine o’clock yesterday mora: jog at Flagg Hall. THE PILOT'S TESTIMONY. Howlett Lake, pilot of the [sarc Newtor witness called, and tostided as follows:—I live in albany, 1 was piiot on board the Isaac New! at the time of the acckdvat; | aw the bodies of the persons Low deceased, who were liyng in the steamboat houpe yoskarday; saw ‘Thomas Glennon, and helped bim off boat on wo the’ barge; we came out of New York, on the Newton, at six o'clock on Saturday night; 1 was not acting as pilot at the time; everything was all right when we started; we went! dlong as (ar as Fort Washington Point, and I was sitting in the wheelhouse, when I heard the boiler e: realded firemen, and got him op board the propeller; think T found him at the bottom of the stateroom stain] afk; atten Lot tale fireman on board I started to go ( ward, wit! on the outside where there was a small boat, into 1 got and sculled to the Newton for the purpose of Cay Peck, whom I supposed to bestillon the New ton; I saw @ steamboat at the forward part of the New| ton, and I made np my mind all the and wore sale; we Cut the lines of the bj from the Ne praienty e § al re and pui on ior: captain Peck then told me to ‘soo it the boat Cornell, which was under the Newton’s stern, w not take our passengors to Albany; the Captain wld m| he could pot do it; we then went along and brought rs to Yonkers, landing at the upper dock; I say the fremen on board tho Newton;! don’t know how thi wounded got on board the barges; I could not say whothe| there were any dead left on ghe Newton, it must bave about seveu o'clock when AF¥ attention was first called the accident; I could not tell what was the cause of accident; I heard the explosion, and starboard side from the escape of 8 were running at the timo at the miles an hour; | know there are some of the crew misait y sion; I also know that all the dead were injured by explosion; Glennon told me be came himself to the foot the st#ics, where! found him, from h!s room forward the boiler; they said they hud six firemen on board boat; it was the duty of the first engineer to have of the engine was on board at the time; two of firemen are ohge now in the steamboat house; two fare missing, afl two are dead; the names of the m: flremen aro smith aud Lyman, I saw po one jump board; I never heard or knew that the boilers were out order; we had no chance to use tho apparatus which had on board for the purpose of putting out fires; we hoxe, buckets und a steam engine for the especial pui a een fires; 1 understood the ehgiweers on, 7 TESTIMONY OF CAPTAIN WILLIAM H. PECK. Captain William H. Peck, the der Newton, was the next witness, and testified as follows: dl i i A the promenade the while; I went on * 32 A er, and do what he could to extivguish — bea swered that he had dove #0; 1 went on main de iter board guard, and saw the eut forward past the ventilators, and met) . the pilot, com.og towards me; 1 told him to see getting the passengers on the barge, I went to notify t ors to go ait; | undertook to retura alt but w unable todo 80, the baying burst through t sides near the ventiiator were ing out over, and the vesse! seemed to be generally on fire; up ime 1 bad of saving ber, 1 went up the sta way on the floor above; the smoke was very dense, I ¢ Ot mest a soul except the pilot; 1 groped along throu the smoke, found the door of my room and passed throu that to the upper deck, where J found Heraid with eome canal boats alongside; they all the passengers off at this time; I then ask if everybody bad got off and was answered the affirmative; next passed down on the to ® canal boat in tow of the Herald: then backed off, and as soon as wedid #0 1 hailed! propeller, to know Ii everybody bad been got off aft; J v. informed tbat all were taken off enfo, | requested © have beer ia commu Mtr. John T. Bush, one of the whe ne cated, Ho tentifed’ an followe.—1 reatle. te Niag! Falls; 1 was om the ieaac Newton on the. Sth iont, berth wae di over the room, on the ef board side; saw two little boys, indifferently dress wilting on boxes, while | was ing. fa my #taterooe board the noweef an explosion, which threw me ul lice, it was @ heavy, crasbiog sound, not very jo,’ which continued a second of more; my impression wag the time that it was om Y ing but the toferer boiler, I was to